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Topic: Snow

Common Core Standards: RL.K.1---With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RI.K.7---With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear. RF.K.3a---Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. SL.K.2---Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood. SL.K.4---Describe familiar people, places, things and events and with prompting and support, provide additional details. L.K.1a---Print many upper and lowercase letters. L.K.5a---Sort common objects into categories to gain sense of the concepts the categories represent.

Suggested Student Objectives:
 * Identify words that begin with /n/.
 * Learn that the letter Nn stands for /n/.
 * Write the letter Nn.
 * Build background for "Snow."
 * Draw conclusions from the reading.
 * Classify and categorize sensory words.

Suggested Additional Readings: Owl Moon by Jane Yolen The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats Snowballs by Lois Ehlert Stranger in the Woods by Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick Brave Irene by William Steig Its Snowy Today by Kristin Sterling

Resource Links: [|Snow Thematic Unit] [|Snowman Math] [|Winter Activities] [|Winter Wonderland] [|Snow Lesson Plans]

Activities: 1. Show children a photo of frozen blocks of ice in a river. Discuss with them that water freezes in the winter and then melts in the spring. Drop an ice cube into a bowl of warm water and have the children observe what happens to the ice cube. Then have them draw a picture about the process they have just seen.

2. Snowman magnet- paint a jumbo craft stick white. Add a hat, eyes, and a scarf. Put a magnet on the back.

3. Snowball vocabulary game-I make a snowball out of white yarn. When it gets tossed to you, you have to say a winter word.

4. Snow Scene We made snow scenes and painted them with a snow mixture. The mixtures is 1 cup salt, 1/2 cup flour, and 3/4 cup water.

5. Pasta Snowflakes Make snowflakes out of wagon wheel pasta. We will be spray painting them white or gold.

6. Paper Plate Snowman: Provide each child with three white paper plates. Let children cut out a hat, a scarf, a nose, and buttons from colored construction paper or felt. Glue the hat to one paperplate and have children add facial features.Use a stapler to connect the 3 plates together vertically. With glue add the scarf and buttons. Go outside and search for two sticks for its arms.Let dry and attach with staples.

Assessments: Children will be able to draw a picture about something they do on a snowy day.

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